GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, December 1, 2025 - Last month, the Inter-American Development Bank released its Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, revealing that an estimated 58% of Guyanese live in poverty, surviving on less than US$6.85 per day, while 32% of the population live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than US$3.65 daily.
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CARIBBEAN | The Unfinished Business: Why Barbados May Be Cambridge Analytica's Next Caribbean Target
By Calvin G. Brown
In October 2010, when a member of Strategic Communications Laboratories tried to pitch the opposition Barbados Labour Party, Alexander Nix's response to their rejection was succinct and...
By O. Dave Allen
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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, November 29, 2025 - Thursday night's electoral results in St. Vincent and the Grenadines landed like a thunderclap across the Eastern Caribbean.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 23, 2025 - The African economy is in trouble not because Africans are lazy. It is not only chattel slavery that adversely impacted the African race, but...
A UN disaster response veteran returns home to find devastation—and a relief effort divided by political lines
I have managed disaster responses across 40 countries. I have walked through killing fields...
By O. Dave Allen
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GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, October 20, 2025 - For generations, the Caribbean Sea has been upheld as a Zone of Peace. That is no accident. It was built by the conscious decisions...
By O. Dave Allen
In politics, there are no coincidences—only calculations. The People’s National Party’s recent pattern in Montego Bay offers a case study in strategic renewal disguised as routine procedure....
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 21, 2025 - Marlene Malahoo Forte’s story is one of brilliance, ambition, and paradox. From her early days in rural Westmoreland to the heights of national...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 20, 2025 - A few days ago, Charlotte Higgins recounts in The Guardian, an American acquaintance told her something chilling: "In my opinion, the US is in...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 15, 2025 -All the political parties except the incumbent People’s Progressive Party went into the September 1, 2025 elections with the aim of toppling the government. They...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - October 16, 2025 - In what is now called the world’s richest and fastest-growing economy, the cost of living in Guyana is unbearable for the working class....

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